Christian Missionary Deconverted by Tribe (proteanview)

Pirahã tribe of Brazil returns Christian Missionary, Daniel Everett, to atheism

More on the Pirahã tribe & linguist, Daniel Everett - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Spzjh9QgA

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726391.900-interview-out-on-a-limb-ov...

http://www.llc.ilstu.edu/dlevere/

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=545

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_colapinto

http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/04/15/18:41:01/

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[GreenDistantStar]

@snoogans460: What's depressing is your ethnocentric, holier-than-thou response. What they did believe in, and you still do, are third-hand, Bronze Age superstitions. Their unbelief is rational, your belief is not. Pontificating and imperious christians like you do no end of harm. You warp the minds of children with your cruel and ludicrous god, and look down upon tribes whose beliefs are no less primitive than your own. What a joke you are.

[OrthodoxDarwinist]

Funny how uncivilized rainforest tribespeople can smell the bullshit of Christianity.

[leegeorgeson]

If the Christian Reich can get into Heaven, then I sincerely doubt ANYONE has ever gone to hell...

[leegeorgeson]

If the Roman Empire had converted to Norse Mythology, you would be worshiping Thor instead of Jesus and Odin instead of God.

[geekgurl2000]

Are you insinuating that these tribes deserve genocide? You appear to be outright stating that the Piraha are 'dangerous and destructive' (yeah, only to the christian worldview...but as the saying goes..some demolitions are renovations.)

[leegeorgeson]

They did years ago, but back then Missionaries were allowed to shoot the Natives :(

[kittysaurusrex2011]

amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Haroldbeavis1969]

LOL!!!!! No true Scotsman!!!!

[crystalsaete]

What is a true Christain then? Sometimes I think the closest thing to a "true Christain" is a Atheist. They don't do things for a rewards from a higher power they do good things because they actually care about people. Why is it so bad to not live for a god? Are you saying that these tribe peoples lives are of no true value?

[Geeksaregeeky]

Karen Ott, I agree. He was not of the truth. Anyone who is truly regenerated by the Holy Spirit has Christ and according to 2 Corinthians 5:17, is a new creature in Christ.

Man...there is so much confusion with people who say they're in the Christian faith. But those who know Jesus of Nazareth, know the truth and we will die with our testimony that Jesus is the Christ. The Son of God.

[Karen Ott]

This "Missionary" has never been a true Christian in the first place and never received the Holy Spirit.